Smart Bugs

As I listened to a fellow practitioner explain to a patient how a fever is beneficial, I remembered that I did not personally ascribe to that theory.  Why?  Let me explain using two examples.

First, ever notice how it is that when you have a dripping sinus, it eventually turns into a sore throat?  If you are lucky you then progress into bronchitis and occasionally pneumonia. Why?  Because most of these organisms are non-motile, they have to 'ride the wave' to move throughout the body.  It is to their benefit to have the capacity to stimulate those secretions,  yet the accepted theory is that the secretions are part of the bodies plan to rid themselves of the offending organism.  It would also explain why so many infections don't seem to be especially virulent unless the nasal region is first inoculated.

Continue along those lines to fevers.  Everyone knows how weak you become when you have a fever.  Perhaps the change in temperature is to lower the viral replication potential as theorized.  But maybe the virus stimulates an abnormal body temperature to impair the body's immune response potential.

I know two things for sure.  Ibuprofen IS a miracle drug.  And drying up sinuses DOES work.  

Somebody needs to find out.